That the Alternative for Germany polls better in the east than in the west has become a source of division within the party
ordinary Monday evening in Dresden. Around 1,000 people have gathered, under gunmetal skies and German flags, for the fortnightly demonstration organised by Pegida . It is a peculiar blend of the convivial and the hateful. The crowd laughs and cheers as speakers rail against immigrants, politicians and the media. Later they march through the city centre, swapping insults with balaclava-clad counter-protesters. There are arrests for violence and Holocaust denial.
It will also do well in two other eastern elections: in Brandenburg, on the same day, and Thuringia, in October. It polls much better in the states of the old East Germany than in the West. But that difference has become a source of division inside the party.In the past five years thehas transformed itself from a tweedy set of Eurosceptics worried about euro-zone bail-outs into a populist-xenophobic outfit in the vein of Austria’s Freedom Party or the National Rally in France.
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